I write of journeys beyond the mortal world, as lamp blossoms fall one by one.
Folk customs are but the surface; the human heart is the bone beneath.
Ask what this book is about, and ghosts and gods are not the answer.
Once the Nuo masks come off, you and I will meet face to face.
Lin Du, a graduate student in folklore, accidentally awakens his ancestral bloodline and gains the power of “spirit wandering.” His consciousness can leave his body and enter the illusions others create from their obsessions. Together with a young Nuo performer skilled in Nuo opera and his senior fellow student Chen Yiming, who studies the psychology of religion, he forms the “Spirit Wanderers” team. They travel through hidden corners of the city, helping the living resolve their inner turmoil and bringing comfort to the dead.
